期刊
GENES
卷 13, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes13030522
关键词
Menacanthus cornutus; mitochondrial genome; gene rearrangement; evolution
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31900343, 32170474, 31922012]
- Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST [YESS20200106]
This study reports the complete mitochondrial genome of a chicken body louse and identifies gene rearrangements and inversions, providing insights into the structural evolution of the mitochondrial genome in parasitic lice.
Animal mitochondrial (mt) genomes are typically double-strand circular DNA molecules, but diverse structural variations have been widely found in multiple groups. In parasitic lice (Phthiraptera), the structure of mt genomes varies remarkably across all five suborders. In this study, we reported the complete mt genome of a chicken body louse, Menacanthus cornutus, which has a typical single circular mt chromosome and drastic mt gene rearrangements. This mt genome is 15,693 bp in length, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, 23 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and a control region. A comparison with a typical insect mt genome suggested that two highly similar trnM are present in the mt genome of M. cornutus. Moreover, almost every single gene was rearranged, and over half of mt genes were inverted. Phylogenetic analyses inferred from the mt genome sequences supported the monophyly and position of Amblycera. Mapped over the phylogenetic relationships of Amblycera, we identified two inversion events for the conserved gene blocks in Boopidae and Menoponidae. The inverted ND4L-ND4 was likely a synapomorphic rearrangement in Menoponidae. Our study demonstrated the importance of sequencing mt genomes for additional taxa to uncover the mechanism underlying the structural evolution of the mt genome in parasitic lice.
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